The founder, Nancy Brinker, is a Bush Pioneer. Her ex-husband is head of the restaurant chain that owns Chilis, Macaroni Grill, etc.
http://www.brinker.com/While her commitment to breast cancer may be real, she uses the disease to help corporations sell products, with little of the money actually going to the cause and to help GoP politicians look like they're doing something about breast cancer.
Komen also lobbies against federal funding for programs like the Breast & Cervical Cancer Treatment Program, which provides temporary Medicaid coverage to uninsured women; the Patient's Bill of Rights and funding for research into environmental factors that cause breast cancer.
Here's an article, a little old but still accurate.
http://www.alternet.org/story/14014/Other breast cancer groups like the National Breast Cancer Coalition (home of the Virginia Clinton Kelly Fund established by President Clinton) advocate for increased federal funding of breast cancer research as well as access to health care for all.
Thanks to their efforts, the federal government now spends nearly $1 billion for breast cancer research EVERY YEAR. Federal government is the biggest funder of cancer research, as it should be. Far better to have research guided and funded by government than by corporations.
Link to NBCC
http://www.natlbcc.org/Link to Virginia Clinton Kelley Fund
http://www.natlbcc.org/bin/index.asp?strid=781&depid=16